5 fantastic ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom:
Writing activities – Wallwisher has a 160 character limit for each comment/post that you leave on the wall. Which is, in a way, a good thing! It allows for short story/collaborative projects, essay plans, note-taking, memos, poems, etc… the writing possibilities are endless!
Brainstorming activities – This is a great ice breaker for the beginning of class! And better yet, it’s a great way to post a homework assignment/food for thought for that evening and then discuss it the next day.
Vocabulary/Grammar Activities – You could easily use Wallwisher for practicing tenses, definitions, vocabulary matching (you can even use audio or video!), or even find a theme and have the students fill the sticky notes with their ideas for the vocabulary theme!
Speaking activities – I was never one to love speaking in front of people so Wallwisher is a great way to create short speaking activities to help students feel more comfortable in front of a group of people. These activities could be to talk about a photo or video for X minutes, create a story based upon X number of photos, or even put debate topics on a sticky note for the student to create.
Notifications – That is the original thought, right? You could use Wallwisher for orientation information, classroom rules, student profiles, daily/weekly plan, or even fun messages to other students who might be out sick or on trips with their families.
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QR Stuff - QR Code Generator - 54 views
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easy to use QR code generator with a lot of options for different codes; suggestion by Gretchen Schroeder
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Print QR Codes Generate printable QR mobile phone-readable 2D barcodes containing a website URL, an email address, a phone number, a pre-formatted SMS message or just plain text to use as paper prints, DIY stickers, temporary tattoos or iron-on T-shirt transfers. Design A Custom QR Code T-Shirt Generate your own QR Code and then you and your code are sent to the Zazzle print-on-demand website to complete the selection of your shirt style, size and color for immediate purchase, printing and delivery direct to your door.
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Generate QR codes. Encode any text, such as poems, letters or short stories, website links, contact details... the list goes on. You can even choose the colour. They make great displays. All this is free, but you can also buy 'stuff' with a QR design printed on it.
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5 Fantastic Ways to Use Wallwisher in the Classroom - SimpleK12 - 138 views
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Wallwisher Student Engagement Web 2.0 Speeches Writing Tools Brainstorming Announcements
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Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 18 views
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This article describes a new book, Reality Hunger, which is essentially a mashup of quotes from other sources. The article discusses how are culture of short-form writing and reading is changing literature and reading. The book reminds me of elements of a Humument, which also took the work of another and then augmented that work into a new story and art form.
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Uncovering Steve Jobs' Presentation Secrets - BusinessWeek - 66 views
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short stories | LearnEnglish Kids | British Council - 53 views
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Articles | What Makes Them Click - 79 views
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What if we applied the psychology of what makes technology attractive to students...to our practices in the classroom? Using this idea, in addition to using more technology in the classroom, why not design the traditional human / face-to-face classroom experience to be more like what makes technology so engrossing to modern students? Do these principles sound familiar... Deliver information in bite sized chunks, Create mental models, Use short stories to help process information, Learning happens and is remembered through repetition, People are motivated by Progress and Mastery, Sustained attention lasts 10 minutes, and the use of Progressive Disclosure. Here are 100 little articles that could have big implications in the classroom.
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A Game With Heart, Gone Home Is A Bold Step In Storytelling : All Tech Considered : NPR - 53 views
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Let me just get this out of the way: Gone Home is one of the most deeply intimate and emotionally honest gaming experiences I've had in my more than 25 years of playing video games.
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Though more of a story exploration game or a piece of interactive short fiction, Gone Home (available for Windows, Mac and Linux) weaves its touching story with such deft and narrative grace that it is hard not to be sucked in immediately.
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Billed as a "story exploration game," Gone Home has users exploring an empty house and piecing together why no one is home.
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Annotating the Model Content Frameworks for ELA/Literacy by PARCC - 9 views
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upper grades, content-area teachers are encouraged to consider how best to implement informational reading across the disciplines
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present their analyses in writing and speaking
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all students need access to a wide range of materials on a variety of topics and genres
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students improve both their reading comprehension and their writing skills when writing in response to texts.
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notes, summaries, learning logs, writing to learn tasks, or even a response to a short text selection or an open-ended question.[9]
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hese responses can vary in length based on the questions asked and tasks performed, from answering brief questions to crafting multiparagraph responses in upper grades.
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narrative story and narrative description
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generate writing pieces in response to teacher-provided prompts and to their own prompts
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For reading and writing in each module
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Graham, S., and M. A. Hebert. 2010. Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading. A Carnegie Corporation Time to Act Report. Washington, D.C.: Alliance for Excellent Education.
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Class is in session...AGAIN!!!! - 13 views
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An ABC news clip about year-round school that discusses how parents and teachers feel about children attending school year -round. The clip discusses how some believe that year-round school is not beneficial and more expensive. They each have their own view on how the extra days help or hurt the students. There is also a short newspaper article accompanying the four minute clip.
Every Story is the Same - YouTube - 57 views
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How to Develop Positive Classroom Management | Edutopia - 87 views
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while 80 percent said that classroom-management training, conflict resolution, guidance counseling, and mediation are effective for improving discipline.
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school staff should work together as much as possible to foster consistency in expectations, and discipline methods, throughout the school
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"What happened?" and "Who else has been affected?" to "What do you need to do now to repair the harm?"
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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 61, Stanley Elkin - 0 views
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It’s a rare joke that is funny. Only situations are funny.
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to do the kinds of things which people don’t really do in real life but which they do do in fiction—to follow their own irrational—but sane—obsessions which, achieved, would satisfy them. Alas, these guys never catch up with their obsessions.
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There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think, “Jesus Christ, how many more months do I have left?” or years, I hope. I am totally preoccupied with death. I mean my own death. Barth, for example, has said that he comes from very good stock and expects to live a long time. Bill Gass thinks that one of the reasons he takes so much time writing his novels—it took him ten years to write Omensetter’s Luck—is that he has an infinite amount of time left to him. I don’t believe that I have an infinite amount of time left to me. Probably I would be a healthier man if I did believe it.
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it’s not a question of making imaginary leaps or having a third eye. It’s a question of using the two eyes I have—and looking hard and close at things.
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That kind of observation can be taught. I also try to teach them how to recognize a situation, what legitimately is a situation and what isn’t. Those are the only things that can be taught. I can’t teach a person style. I can’t teach him to write, in terms of language. But I can teach them that things look like other things.
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I don’t believe that less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.
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There’s marvelous language in Pricksongs and Descants but it’s subsidiary to the experiment with structure. I tell you this for your own good, Bob. The reason I like Gass so much is that Gass is not fucking around with structure. He is fucking around with language. That to me is legitimate and acceptable, and the furthest out you can go is the best place to be. That’s what’s so magnificent about Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote very conventional plays, but the language wasn’t conventional.
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palimpsest of metaphor right there on the page. One gets a notion of the conceit and one is inspired to work with it as a draftsman might work with some angle that he is interested in getting down correctly.
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The Top Seven Trends in Workplace Learning - 43 views
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Trainers and facilitators need to remember these numbers: 90, 20, 8, 6. 90 minutes is the ideal chunk of time for participants can learn and understand 20 minutes is how long participants can listen and retain information 8 minutes is the length of time you can talk for before before they stop listening. We are trained to focus for just eight minutes due to decades of TV watching, where ad breaks occur approximately every eight to ten minutes. 6 is the ideal number of times to present information to make sure a learner remembers the content.
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the challenge for facilitators is to keep things changing so that learners’ RAS keep firing so they stay alert to the learning
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It’s essential that trainers and facilitators keep learning themselves, to acquire new tools that will help them keep ensuring the training sticks!
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And if you’ve been ignoring social media, now’s the time to reconsider because it’s clearly here to stay.
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Blended learning is about mixing up face-to-face learning with webinars, blogging, emails, forums, video, online learning and social media.
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trainers must move away from doing things in the same old way, must reach out to learners in new ways, personalise their learning campaigns, and help people connect to each other around issues they care about!
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From planning phase to project end, things have to change – become familiar with new styles of presenting using multimedia, and carefully choose visuals to tell your story!
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70% of learning happens on the job 20% of learning happens through coaching and mentoring 10% of learning happens in training room and formal learning